Professor Ivana Gudelj

News: Very excited to announce the launch of our Global Meteorological Simulator: For plant health and disease covered in this BBC News online article Exeter climate simulator "brings weather into the lab"

Interests:

My group uses mathematical and experimental approaches to study competition, cooperation, and coevolution among microorganisms. We are a truly interdisciplinary team where mathematicians, physicists, bioinformaticians, molecular biologists, and experimental evolutionary ecologists, work together and share expertise. This collaborative environment is ideal for training the next generation of scientists, equipping them to tackle complex cross-disciplinary challenges in evolutionary ecology.

By integrating systems biology with population-level frameworks, we aim to quantify how microbial community composition is shaped by the metabolism, genetics, and physiology of individual organisms, and how these factors interact with and how these factors interact with abiotic conditions such as temperature, humidity, wind, and rainfall. This work addresses fundamental eco-evolutionary problems, including the evolution of diversity, disease transmission and virulence, and the emergence of antimicrobial resistance.

Qualifications:

1998 – 2002 PhD in Applied Mathematics, University of Bath
1994 – 1998 BSc in Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath

Career:

2025 - present Head of Biosciences (shared role), University of Exeter

2015 – present Professor of Evolutionary Systems Biology, Biosciences, University of Exeter
2012 – 2015 Associate Professor of Evolutionary Systems Biology, Biosciences, University of Exeter
2011 – present NERC Advanced Fellow/ Associate Professor in Systems Biology, Biosciences, University of Exeter
2008 – 2010 NERC Advanced Fellow/ Lecturer in Applied Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London
2007 - 2008 NERC Advanced Fellow, Department of Mathematics, University of Bath
2006 – 2007 NERC EMS Fellow, Department of Mathematics, University of Bath
2004 – 2006 NERC EMS Fellow, NERC Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College London
2001 – 2004 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Rothamsted Research